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</script></nav></div><div class="container mainContainer docsContainer"><div class="wrapper"><div class="post"><header class="postHeader"><a class="edit-page-link button" href="https://github.com/bitcoin-s/bitcoin-s/blob/master/docs/core/addresses.md" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Edit</a><h1 id="__docusaurus" class="postHeaderTitle">Generating Addresses</h1></header><article><div><span><p>Almost all Bitcoin applications need to generate addresses
for their users somehow. There's a lot going on in getting
a correct bitcoin address, but our APIs make it possible to
to get started with all types of addresses in a matter of
minutes.</p>
<h2><a class="anchor" aria-hidden="true" id="generating-segwit-bech32-addresses"></a><a href="#generating-segwit-bech32-addresses" aria-hidden="true" class="hash-link"><svg class="hash-link-icon" aria-hidden="true" height="16" version="1.1" viewBox="0 0 16 16" width="16"><path fill-rule="evenodd" d="M4 9h1v1H4c-1.5 0-3-1.69-3-3.5S2.55 3 4 3h4c1.45 0 3 1.69 3 3.5 0 1.41-.91 2.72-2 3.25V8.59c.58-.45 1-1.27 1-2.09C10 5.22 8.98 4 8 4H4c-.98 0-2 1.22-2 2.5S3 9 4 9zm9-3h-1v1h1c1 0 2 1.22 2 2.5S13.98 12 13 12H9c-.98 0-2-1.22-2-2.5 0-.83.42-1.64 1-2.09V6.25c-1.09.53-2 1.84-2 3.25C6 11.31 7.55 13 9 13h4c1.45 0 3-1.69 3-3.5S14.5 6 13 6z"></path></svg></a>Generating SegWit (bech32) addresses</h2>
<p>Generating native SegWit addresses in the bech32 format
is something that all Bitcoin applications should enable,
as it makes the transaction fees less expensive, and also
makes the addresses more readable by humans. However, it
has seen slower than necessary adoption. With Bitcoin-S
you can generate bech32 addresses in four(!) lines of code
(not counting comments and imports), so now there's no
reason to keep using legacy transaction formats.</p>
<pre><code class="hljs css language-scala"><span class="hljs-comment">// this generates a random private key</span>
<span class="hljs-keyword">val</span> privkey = <span class="hljs-type">ECPrivateKey</span>()
<span class="hljs-comment">// privkey: ECPrivateKey = Masked(ECPrivateKey)</span>
<span class="hljs-keyword">val</span> pubkey = privkey.publicKey
<span class="hljs-comment">// pubkey: org.bitcoins.crypto.ECPublicKey = ECPublicKey(027170013686225cb4d8dd6578e6c35fea298f32d848f6ba71c12e87f69ee2f6ce)</span>
<span class="hljs-keyword">val</span> segwitAddress = {
<span class="hljs-comment">// see https://bitcoin.org/en/glossary/pubkey-script</span>
<span class="hljs-comment">// for reading resources on the details of scriptPubKeys</span>
<span class="hljs-comment">// pay-to-witness-pubkey-hash scriptPubKey V0</span>
<span class="hljs-keyword">val</span> scriptPubKey = <span class="hljs-type">P2WPKHWitnessSPKV0</span>(pubkey)
<span class="hljs-type">Bech32Address</span>(scriptPubKey, <span class="hljs-type">TestNet3</span>)
}
<span class="hljs-comment">// segwitAddress: Bech32Address = tb1qavf0xqah9fw5t3p9fcny6kfxn054epy030kt7e</span>
println(segwitAddress.toString)
<span class="hljs-comment">// tb1qavf0xqah9fw5t3p9fcny6kfxn054epy030kt7e</span>
</code></pre>
<h2><a class="anchor" aria-hidden="true" id="generating-legacy-base58-addresses"></a><a href="#generating-legacy-base58-addresses" aria-hidden="true" class="hash-link"><svg class="hash-link-icon" aria-hidden="true" height="16" version="1.1" viewBox="0 0 16 16" width="16"><path fill-rule="evenodd" d="M4 9h1v1H4c-1.5 0-3-1.69-3-3.5S2.55 3 4 3h4c1.45 0 3 1.69 3 3.5 0 1.41-.91 2.72-2 3.25V8.59c.58-.45 1-1.27 1-2.09C10 5.22 8.98 4 8 4H4c-.98 0-2 1.22-2 2.5S3 9 4 9zm9-3h-1v1h1c1 0 2 1.22 2 2.5S13.98 12 13 12H9c-.98 0-2-1.22-2-2.5 0-.83.42-1.64 1-2.09V6.25c-1.09.53-2 1.84-2 3.25C6 11.31 7.55 13 9 13h4c1.45 0 3-1.69 3-3.5S14.5 6 13 6z"></path></svg></a>Generating legacy (base58) addresses</h2>
<p>If you need to generate legacy addresses for backwards
compatability reasons, that's also a walk in the park.
Take a look:</p>
<pre><code class="hljs css language-scala"><span class="hljs-comment">// we're reusing the same private/public key pair</span>
<span class="hljs-comment">// from before. don't do this in an actual application!</span>
<span class="hljs-keyword">val</span> legacyAddress = <span class="hljs-type">P2PKHAddress</span>(pubkey, <span class="hljs-type">TestNet3</span>)
<span class="hljs-comment">// legacyAddress: P2PKHAddress = n2wunkd3K3P5D1fxwM3T4Zf8C9WUCuPD6F</span>
println(legacyAddress.toString)
<span class="hljs-comment">// n2wunkd3K3P5D1fxwM3T4Zf8C9WUCuPD6F</span>
</code></pre>
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